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class="infobox ib-election infobox-table vevent" style="width:350px"><caption class="infobox-title summary">1979 Canadian federal election</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg/50px-Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg/75px-Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg/100px-Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span><hr /></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><table style="width:100%; margin:1px; display:inline-table;"><tbody><tr> <td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:middle; padding:0 0.5em 0 0;width:20%;" class="noprint">← <a href="/wiki/1974_Canadian_federal_election" title="1974 Canadian federal election">1974</a></td> <td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;; padding:0 1px;width:60%;" class=""><b>May 22, 1979</b></td> <td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:middle;; padding:0 0 0 0.5em;width:20%;" class="noprint"><a href="/wiki/1980_Canadian_federal_election" title="1980 Canadian federal election">1980</a> →</td> </tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><div style="width:100%"><div style="float: left; text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;width:40%; text-align:center;" class="noprint">← <a href="/wiki/30th_Canadian_Parliament" title="30th Canadian Parliament">outgoing members</a></div><div style="float: right; text-align:right;padding-left:0.5em;width:40%; text-align:center;" class="noprint"><a href="/wiki/31st_Canadian_Parliament" title="31st Canadian Parliament">elected members</a> →</div></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><hr />282 seats in the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_Canada" title="House of Commons of Canada">House of Commons</a><br />142 seats needed for a majority</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_1979_Canadian_federal_election" title="Opinion polling for the 1979 Canadian federal election">Opinion polls</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Turnout</th><td class="infobox-data">75.7%<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (<span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>4.7<a href="/wiki/Percentage_Point" class="mw-redirect" title="Percentage Point">pp</a>)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"> <table style="background:transparent; color: inherit; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr class="sr-only"> <th style="text-align:left;">  </th> <th style="text-align:center">First party </th> <th style="text-align:center">Second party </th></tr> <tr> <td>  </td> <td class="notheme" style="text-align:center;border-bottom: 6px solid #9999FF"><span class="mw-default-size notpageimage noresize" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Right_Hon._Charles_Joseph_Clark,_P.C.,_M.P_(3x4).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img 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Conservative</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Canada" title="Liberal Party of Canada">Liberal</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Leader since </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/1976_Progressive_Conservative_leadership_election" title="1976 Progressive Conservative leadership election">February 22, 1976</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/1968_Liberal_Party_of_Canada_leadership_election" title="1968 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election">April 6, 1968</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Leader's seat </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Yellowhead_(electoral_district)" title="Yellowhead (electoral district)">Yellowhead</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Mount_Royal_(electoral_district)" title="Mount Royal (electoral district)">Mount Royal</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Last election </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">95 seats, 35.46% </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">141 seats, 43.15% </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Seats before </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">98 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">133 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Seats won </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">136 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">114 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Seat change </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>38 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>19 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Popular vote </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">4,111,606 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">4,595,319 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Percentage </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">35.89% </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">40.11% </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Swing </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>0.43<a href="/wiki/Percentage_Point" class="mw-redirect" title="Percentage Point">pp</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>3.04<a href="/wiki/Percentage_Point" class="mw-redirect" title="Percentage Point">pp</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4"><hr /> </td></tr> <tr class="sr-only"> <th style="text-align:left;">  </th> <th style="text-align:center">Third party </th> <th style="text-align:center">Fourth party </th></tr> <tr> <td>  </td> <td class="notheme" style="text-align:center;border-bottom: 6px solid #F4A460"><span class="mw-default-size notpageimage noresize" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Ed_Broadbent_Le_Prince_Kibego_Njangamwita_Nabuvira_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Ed_Broadbent_Le_Prince_Kibego_Njangamwita_Nabuvira_%28cropped%29.jpg/131px-Ed_Broadbent_Le_Prince_Kibego_Njangamwita_Nabuvira_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="131" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Ed_Broadbent_Le_Prince_Kibego_Njangamwita_Nabuvira_%28cropped%29.jpg/197px-Ed_Broadbent_Le_Prince_Kibego_Njangamwita_Nabuvira_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Ed_Broadbent_Le_Prince_Kibego_Njangamwita_Nabuvira_%28cropped%29.jpg/263px-Ed_Broadbent_Le_Prince_Kibego_Njangamwita_Nabuvira_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="376" data-file-height="501" /></a></span> </td> <td class="notheme" style="text-align:center;border-bottom: 6px solid #90EE90"><div style="width:100%;"><span style="line-height:175px; vertical-align:center; text-align:center; color:#90EE90; font-size:38px;"> <b>SC</b></span></div> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Leader </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Ed_Broadbent" title="Ed Broadbent">Ed Broadbent</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Fabien_Roy" title="Fabien Roy">Fabien Roy</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="width:75px;text-align:left">Party </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/New_Democratic_Party" title="New Democratic Party">New Democratic</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Social_Credit_Party_of_Canada" title="Social Credit Party of Canada">Social Credit</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Leader since </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/1975_New_Democratic_Party_leadership_election" title="1975 New Democratic Party leadership election">July 7, 1975</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Social_Credit_Party_of_Canada" title="Social Credit Party of Canada">March 30, 1979</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Leader's seat </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Oshawa_(federal_electoral_district)" title="Oshawa (federal electoral district)">Oshawa</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Beauce_(electoral_district)" title="Beauce (electoral district)">Beauce</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Last election </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">16 seats, 15.44% </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">11 seats, 5.06% </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Seats before </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">17 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">9 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Seats won </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">26 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">6 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Seat change </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>9 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>3 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Popular vote </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">2,048,988 </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">527,604 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Percentage </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">17.88% </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center">4.61% </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left">Swing </th> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>2.45<a href="/wiki/Percentage_Point" class="mw-redirect" title="Percentage Point">pp</a> </td> <td style="width:75px;text-align:center"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span>0.46<a href="/wiki/Percentage_Point" class="mw-redirect" title="Percentage Point">pp</a> </td></tr> </tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><hr /><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Canada_1979_Federal_Election.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Canada_1979_Federal_Election.svg/350px-Canada_1979_Federal_Election.svg.png" decoding="async" width="350" height="297" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Canada_1979_Federal_Election.svg/525px-Canada_1979_Federal_Election.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Canada_1979_Federal_Election.svg/700px-Canada_1979_Federal_Election.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="435" /></a></span><div>Popular vote by province, with graphs indicating the number of seats won. As this is an <a href="/wiki/FPTP" class="mw-redirect" title="FPTP">FPTP</a> election, seat totals are not determined by popular vote by province but instead via results by each riding.</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><hr /><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Chambre_des_Communes_1979.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Chambre_des_Communes_1979.png/300px-Chambre_des_Communes_1979.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="117" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Chambre_des_Communes_1979.png 1.5x" data-file-width="415" data-file-height="162" /></a></span><div>The Canadian parliament after the 1979 election</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><hr /> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="background:transparent; color: inherit; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="width:50%; text-align:left;"><b>Prime Minister before election</b><br /> <p><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Trudeau" title="Pierre Trudeau">Pierre Trudeau</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Canada" title="Liberal Party of Canada">Liberal</a> </p> </td> <td style="width:50%; text-align:right;"><b>Prime Minister after election</b> <br /> <p><a href="/wiki/Joe_Clark" title="Joe Clark">Joe Clark</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Canada" title="Progressive Conservative Party of Canada">Progressive Conservative</a> </p> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>1979 Canadian federal election</b> was held on May 22, 1979, to elect members of the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_Canada" title="House of Commons of Canada">House of Commons of Canada</a> of the <a href="/wiki/31st_Canadian_Parliament" title="31st Canadian Parliament">31st Parliament</a> of <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a>. It resulted in the defeat of the <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Canada" title="Liberal Party of Canada">Liberal Party of Canada</a> after 16 years in power, 11 of them under <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Canada" title="Prime Minister of Canada">Prime Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Pierre_Trudeau" title="Pierre Trudeau">Pierre Trudeau</a>. <a href="/wiki/Joe_Clark" title="Joe Clark">Joe Clark</a> led the <a href="/wiki/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Canada" title="Progressive Conservative Party of Canada">Progressive Conservative Party</a> to power but with only a minority of seats in the House of Commons. The Liberals, however, beat the Progressive Conservatives in the overall popular vote by more than 400,000 votes (40.11% to 35.89%). Taking office on the eve of his 40th birthday, Clark became the youngest prime minister in Canadian history. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Overview">Overview</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1979_Canadian_federal_election&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Overview"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The PC Party campaigned on the slogans, "Let's get Canada working again", and "It's time for a change – give the future a chance!" Canadians were not, however, sufficiently confident in the young Joe Clark to give him a majority in the House of Commons. Quebec, in particular, was unwilling to support Clark and elected only two PC <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Member of Parliament">Members of Parliament</a> (MPs) in the province's 75 <a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_(Canada)" title="Electoral district (Canada)">ridings</a>. Clark, relatively unknown when elected as PC leader at the <a href="/wiki/1976_Progressive_Conservative_leadership_election" title="1976 Progressive Conservative leadership election">1976 PC Party convention</a>, was seen as being bumbling and unsure. Clark had had problems with certain right-wing members of his caucus. In particular, when Clark's riding was merged into the riding of another PC MP during a redistribution of ridings, the other MP refused to step aside, and Clark ended up running in another riding. Also, when Clark undertook a tour of the Middle East to show his ability to handle foreign affairs issues, his luggage was lost, and Clark appeared to be uncomfortable with the issues being discussed. </p><p>The Liberals tried to make leadership and Clark's inexperience the issue by arguing in their advertising, "This is no time for on-the-job training" and "We need tough leadership to keep Canada growing. A leader must be a leader." </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Social_Credit_Party_of_Canada" title="Social Credit Party of Canada">Social Credit Party of Canada</a>, which had lost its mercurial leader, <a href="/wiki/R%C3%A9al_Caouette" title="Réal Caouette">Réal Caouette</a>, who died in 1976, struggled to remain relevant. After a series of interim leaders, including Caouette's son, the party turned to <a href="/wiki/Fabien_Roy" title="Fabien Roy">Fabien Roy</a>, a popular member of the <a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_of_Quebec" title="National Assembly of Quebec">National Assembly of Quebec</a>, who took the reins of the party just before the beginning of the campaign. The party won the tacit support of the separatist <i><a href="/wiki/Parti_Qu%C3%A9b%C3%A9cois" title="Parti Québécois">Parti Québécois</a></i>, which formed the government of Quebec. Social Credit attempted to rally the separatist and nationalist vote: Canadian flags were absent at its campaign kick-off rally, and the party's slogan was <i>C'est à notre tour</i> ("It's our turn"), which was reminiscent of the popular separatist anthem <i><a href="/wiki/Gens_du_pays" title="Gens du pays">Gens du pays</a></i> ("People of the Country"), which includes the chorus, "<i>C'est votre tour, de vous laisser parler d'amour</i>" ("It's your turn, to let you talk about love"). The party focused its platform on constitutional change, which promised to fight to abolish the federal government's constitutional power to disallow any provincial legislation and stated that each province has a "right to choose its own destiny within Canada." </p><p>The Socreds' support from the Parti Québécois was not welcome by everyone; for instance, <a href="/wiki/Gilles_Caouette" title="Gilles Caouette">Gilles Caouette</a> publicly denounced what he called <i><a href="/wiki/P%C3%A9quiste" class="mw-redirect" title="Péquiste">péquistes</a> déguisés en créditistes</i> ("péquistes disguised as Socreds"). What remained of its support outside Quebec virtually disappeared, and while the party only suffered a marginal loss in its overall Quebec vote share, its support was much less efficiently distributed than before. The party managed some increase of votes in péquiste areas, but also lost many votes in areas of traditional Socred strength while much of the reduced PC vote share went to the Liberals. The end result was a drop from eleven to six <a href="/wiki/Members_of_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Members of Parliament">seats</a>. <i>(See also: <a href="/wiki/Social_Credit_Party_candidates,_1979_Canadian_federal_election" class="mw-redirect" title="Social Credit Party candidates, 1979 Canadian federal election">Social Credit Party candidates, 1979 Canadian federal election</a>.)</i> </p><p>Clark's <a href="/wiki/Minority_government" title="Minority government">minority government</a> lasted less than nine months. Clark required support from the Socreds to pass the <a href="/wiki/1979_Canadian_federal_budget" title="1979 Canadian federal budget">1979 budget</a> but refused to work with them on ideological grounds, opting instead to "govern as though he had a majority."<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With none of their demands being met, the Socreds refused to prop up the government. That resulted in the <a href="/wiki/1980_Canadian_federal_election" title="1980 Canadian federal election">1980 election</a> in which the PCs were defeated by the resurgent Trudeau Liberals. </p><p>As of 2024, this is the earliest Canadian election from which a major party leader (Clark) is still alive. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="National_results">National results</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1979_Canadian_federal_election&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: National results"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Clark won the popular vote in seven provinces, while losing the popular vote nationwide, and because his party won only two seats in Quebec, he won only a minority government. The Liberals won only one seat west of Manitoba. The election was the last in which the <a href="/wiki/Social_Credit_Party_of_Canada" title="Social Credit Party of Canada">Social Credit Party of Canada</a> won seats. An unusual event occurred in the Northwest Territories: the Liberals took more votes overall than any other party but won neither of the territory's two seats. </p> <figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1979_Canadian_parliament.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/1979_Canadian_parliament.svg/300px-1979_Canadian_parliament.svg.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/1979_Canadian_parliament.svg/450px-1979_Canadian_parliament.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/1979_Canadian_parliament.svg/600px-1979_Canadian_parliament.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="185" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2" colspan="2">Party </th> <th rowspan="2">Party leader </th> <th rowspan="2"># of<br />candidates </th> <th colspan="4">Seats </th> <th colspan="3">Popular vote </th></tr> <tr bgcolor="CCCCCC"> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/1974_Canadian_federal_election" title="1974 Canadian federal election">1974</a> </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Dissolution_of_parliament" title="Dissolution of parliament"><span style="font-size: 75%;">Dissolution</span></a> </td> <td align="center"><b>Elected</b> </td> <td align="center">% Change </td> <td align="center"># </td> <td align="center">% </td> <td align="center">Change </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background:#9999FF; width: 16px">  </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Canada" title="Progressive Conservative Party of Canada">Progressive Conservative</a> </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Joe_Clark" title="Joe Clark">Joe Clark</a> </td> <td align="right">282 </td> <td align="right">95 </td> <td align="right">98 </td> <td align="right"><b>136</b> </td> <td align="right">+43.2% </td> <td align="right">4,111,606 </td> <td align="right">35.89% </td> <td align="right">+0.43pp </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background:#EA6D6A; width: 16px">  </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Canada" title="Liberal Party of Canada">Liberal</a> </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Trudeau" title="Pierre Trudeau">Pierre Trudeau</a> </td> <td align="right">282 </td> <td align="right">141 </td> <td align="right">133 </td> <td align="right"><b>114</b> </td> <td align="right">−19.1% </td> <td align="right">4,595,319 </td> <td align="right">40.11% </td> <td align="right">−3.04pp </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background:#F4A460; width: 16px">  </td> <td><a href="/wiki/New_Democratic_Party_(Canada)" class="mw-redirect" title="New Democratic Party (Canada)">New Democratic Party</a> </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Ed_Broadbent" title="Ed Broadbent">Ed Broadbent</a> </td> <td align="right">282 </td> <td align="right">16 </td> <td align="right">17 </td> <td align="right"><b>26</b> </td> <td align="right">+62.5% </td> <td align="right">2,048,988 </td> <td align="right">17.88% </td> <td align="right">+2.45pp </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background:#90EE90; width: 16px"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Social_Credit_Party_of_Canada" title="Social Credit Party of Canada">Social Credit</a> </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Fabien_Roy" title="Fabien Roy">Fabien Roy</a> </td> <td align="right">103 </td> <td align="right">11 </td> <td align="right">9 </td> <td align="right"><b>6</b> </td> <td align="right">−45.5% </td> <td align="right">527,604 </td> <td align="right">4.61% </td> <td align="right">−0.46pp </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background:#D8BFD8; width: 16px"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Rhinoceros_Party_of_Canada_(1963%E2%80%9393)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rhinoceros Party of Canada (1963–93)">Rhinoceros</a> </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Cornelius_the_First" title="Cornelius the First">Cornelius I</a> </td> <td align="right">63 </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">- </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">62,601 </td> <td align="right">0.55% </td> <td align="right">  </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background:#DCDCDC; width: 16px">  </td> <td colspan="2">Independent </td> <td align="right">48 </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">5 </td> <td align="right">- </td> <td align="right">−100% </td> <td align="right">30,518 </td> <td align="right">0.27% </td> <td align="right">−0.14pp </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background:#DCDCDC; width: 16px">  </td> <td colspan="2">Unknown </td> <td align="right">19 </td> <td align="right">- </td> <td align="right">- </td> <td align="right">- </td> <td align="right">- </td> <td align="right">21,268 </td> <td align="right">0.19% </td> <td align="right">+0.01pp </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background:#87CEFA; width: 16px">  </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Union_Populaire" class="mw-redirect" title="Union Populaire">Union Populaire</a></i> </td> <td align="center"> </td> <td align="right">69 </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">- </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">19,514 </td> <td align="right">0.17% </td> <td align="right">  </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background:#F2BA00; width: 16px"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Libertarian_Party_of_Canada" title="Libertarian Party of Canada">Libertarian</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Alex_Eaglesham" class="mw-redirect" title="Alex Eaglesham">Alex Eaglesham</a> </td> <td align="right">60 </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">- </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">16,042 </td> <td align="right">0.14% </td> <td align="right">  </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background:#CD5C5C; width: 16px"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Canada_(Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist)" title="Communist Party of Canada (Marxist–Leninist)">Marxist–Leninist</a> </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Hardial_Bains" title="Hardial Bains">Hardial Bains</a> </td> <td align="right">144 </td> <td align="right">- </td> <td align="right">- </td> <td align="right">- </td> <td align="right">- </td> <td align="right">14,231 </td> <td align="right">0.12% </td> <td align="right">−0.05pp </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background:#FF6347; width: 16px"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Canada" title="Communist Party of Canada">Communist</a> </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/William_Kashtan" title="William Kashtan">William Kashtan</a> </td> <td align="right">71 </td> <td align="right">- </td> <td align="right">- </td> <td align="right">- </td> <td align="right">- </td> <td align="right">9,141 </td> <td align="right">0.08% </td> <td align="right">−0.05pp </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background:#DCDCDC; width: 16px">  </td> <td colspan="2">No affiliation </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">- </td> <td align="right">- </td> <td align="right">- </td> <td align="right">- </td> <td align="right">176 </td> <td align="right">x </td> <td align="right">x </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">     </td> <td colspan="4">Vacant </td> <td align="right">2 </td> <td align="center" colspan="5">  </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><b>Total</b> </td> <td align="right"><b> 1,424</b> </td> <td align="right"><b> 265</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>265</b> </td> <td align="right"><b> 282</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>+6.8%</b> </td> <td align="right"><b> 11,457,008</b> </td> <td align="right"><b> 100.00%</b> </td> <td align="right">  </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center" colspan="11"><b>Sources:</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.elections.ca">http://www.elections.ca</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090609211221/http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Sites/LOP/HFER/hfer.asp?Language=E">History of Federal Ridings since 1867</a> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p><b>Notes:</b> </p><p>"% change" refers to change from previous election. </p><p><i>x</i> − less than 0.005% of the popular vote. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Vote_and_seat_summaries">Vote and seat summaries</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1979_Canadian_federal_election&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Vote and seat summaries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table style="margin:0; border:none;"><tbody><tr><td style="border:none; padding:0;"><div class="notheme barbox" style="overflow-x: auto;"> <div style="border:1px solid silver; font-size:88%; padding:0.4em; width:600px; background: white; color: black;"> <table style="text-align:left; border-collapse:collapse; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr style="background:#ddd"><th style="text-align:center;" colspan="5">Popular vote</th></tr> <tr style="font-size:88%; height:4px;"> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; text-align:left;"></td> <td style="width:410px; text-align:left;"></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; width:1em; text-align:right;"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Liberal</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#F08080; width:40.11%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">40.11%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">PC</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#6495ED; width:35.89%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">35.89%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">NDP</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#F4A460; width:17.88%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">17.88%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Social Credit</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#90EE90; width:4.61%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">4.61%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Others</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#DCDCDC; width:1.51%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">1.51%</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> <table style="margin:0; border:none;"><tbody><tr><td style="border:none; padding:0;"><div class="notheme barbox" style="overflow-x: auto;"> <div style="border:1px solid silver; font-size:88%; padding:0.4em; width:600px; background: white; color: black;"> <table style="text-align:left; border-collapse:collapse; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr style="background:#ddd"><th style="text-align:center;" colspan="5">Seat totals</th></tr> <tr style="font-size:88%; height:4px;"> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; text-align:left;"></td> <td style="width:410px; text-align:left;"></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; width:1em; text-align:right;"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">PC</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#6495ED; width:48.23%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">48.23%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Liberal</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#F08080; width:40.43%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">40.43%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">NDP</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#F4A460; width:9.22%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">9.22%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Social Credit</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:#90EE90; width:2.13%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">2.13%</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Results_by_province">Results by province</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1979_Canadian_federal_election&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Results by province"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th align="center" colspan="3">Party name </th> <th align="center"><a href="/wiki/British_Columbia" title="British Columbia">BC</a> </th> <th align="center"><a href="/wiki/Alberta" title="Alberta">AB</a> </th> <th align="center"><a href="/wiki/Saskatchewan" title="Saskatchewan">SK</a> </th> <th align="center"><a href="/wiki/Manitoba" title="Manitoba">MB</a> </th> <th align="center"><a href="/wiki/Ontario" title="Ontario">ON</a> </th> <th align="center"><a href="/wiki/Quebec" title="Quebec">QC</a> </th> <th align="center"><a href="/wiki/New_Brunswick" title="New Brunswick">NB</a> </th> <th align="center"><a href="/wiki/Nova_Scotia" title="Nova Scotia">NS</a> </th> <th align="center"><a href="/wiki/Prince_Edward_Island" title="Prince Edward Island">PE</a> </th> <th align="center"><a href="/wiki/Newfoundland_and_Labrador" title="Newfoundland and Labrador">NL</a> </th> <th align="center"><a href="/wiki/Northwest_Territories" title="Northwest Territories">NT</a> </th> <th align="center"><a href="/wiki/Yukon" title="Yukon">YK</a> </th> <th align="center">Total </th></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background:#9999FF; width: 16px">  </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Canada" title="Progressive Conservative Party of Canada">Progressive Conservative</a> </td> <td>Seats: </td> <td align="right">19 </td> <td align="right">21 </td> <td align="right">10 </td> <td align="right">7 </td> <td align="right">57 </td> <td align="right">2 </td> <td align="right">4 </td> <td align="right">8 </td> <td align="right">4 </td> <td align="right">2 </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">136 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background:#9999FF; width: 16px">  </td> <td>Popular Vote: </td> <td align="right">44.3 </td> <td align="right">65.6 </td> <td align="right">41.2 </td> <td align="right">43.4 </td> <td align="right">41.8 </td> <td align="right">13.5 </td> <td align="right">40.0 </td> <td align="right">45.4 </td> <td align="right">52.8 </td> <td align="right">27.7 </td> <td align="right">32.3 </td> <td align="right">40.6 </td> <td align="right">35.9 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background:#EA6D6A; width: 16px">  </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Canada" title="Liberal Party of Canada">Liberal</a> </td> <td>Seats: </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">- </td> <td align="right">- </td> <td align="right">2 </td> <td align="right">32 </td> <td align="right">67 </td> <td align="right">6 </td> <td align="right">2 </td> <td align="right">- </td> <td align="right">4 </td> <td align="right">- </td> <td align="right">- </td> <td align="right">114 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background:#EA6D6A; width: 16px">  </td> <td>Vote: </td> <td align="right">23.0 </td> <td align="right">22.1 </td> <td align="right">21.8 </td> <td align="right">23.5 </td> <td align="right">36.4 </td> <td align="right">61.7 </td> <td align="right">44.6 </td> <td align="right">35.5 </td> <td align="right">40.6 </td> <td align="right">41.7 </td> <td align="right">34.1 </td> <td align="right">36.4 </td> <td align="right">40.1 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background:#F4A460; width: 16px">  </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/New_Democratic_Party_(Canada)" class="mw-redirect" title="New Democratic Party (Canada)">New Democratic Party</a> </td> <td>Seats: </td> <td align="right">8 </td> <td align="right">- </td> <td align="right">4 </td> <td align="right">5 </td> <td align="right">6 </td> <td align="right">- </td> <td align="right">- </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">- </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">- </td> <td align="right">26 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background:#F4A460; width: 16px">  </td> <td>Vote: </td> <td align="right">31.9 </td> <td align="right">9.9 </td> <td align="right">35.8 </td> <td align="right">32.7 </td> <td align="right">21.1 </td> <td align="right">5.1 </td> <td align="right">15.3 </td> <td align="right">18.7 </td> <td align="right">6.5 </td> <td align="right">30.6 </td> <td align="right">31.9 </td> <td align="right">23.1 </td> <td align="right">17.9 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background:#90EE90; width: 16px">  </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Social_Credit_Party_of_Canada" title="Social Credit Party of Canada">Social Credit</a> </td> <td>Seats: </td> <td align="right">- </td> <td align="right">- </td> <td align="right">- </td> <td align="right">- </td> <td align="right">- </td> <td align="right">6 </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">6 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background:#90EE90; width: 16px">  </td> <td>Vote: </td> <td align="right">0.2 </td> <td align="right">1.0 </td> <td align="right">0.5 </td> <td align="right">0.2 </td> <td align="right">xx </td> <td align="right">16.0 </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">4.6 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3"><b>Total seats:</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>28</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>21</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>14</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>14</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>95</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>75</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>10</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>11</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>4</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>7</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>2</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>1</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>282</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="16"><b>Parties that won no seats</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background:#D8BFD8; width: 16px"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Rhinoceros_Party_of_Canada_(1963%E2%80%9393)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rhinoceros Party of Canada (1963–93)">Rhinoceros</a> </td> <td>Vote: </td> <td align="right">xx </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">xx </td> <td align="right">1.9 </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">0.5 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background:#DCDCDC; width: 16px">  </td> <td>Independent </td> <td>Vote: </td> <td align="right">0.2 </td> <td align="right">1.1 </td> <td align="right">0.7 </td> <td align="right">0.1 </td> <td align="right">0.1 </td> <td align="right">0.3 </td> <td align="right">0.1 </td> <td align="right">0.3 </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">1.6 </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">0.3 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background:#DCDCDC; width: 16px">  </td> <td>Unknown </td> <td>Vote: </td> <td align="right">0.1 </td> <td align="right">0.2 </td> <td align="right">xx </td> <td align="right">xx </td> <td align="right">xx </td> <td align="right">0.5 </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">xx </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">0.2 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background:#87CEFA; width: 16px">  </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Union_Populaire" class="mw-redirect" title="Union Populaire">Union Populaire</a></i> </td> <td>Vote: </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">0.6 </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">0.2 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background:#F2BA00; width: 16px"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Libertarian_Party_of_Canada" title="Libertarian Party of Canada">Libertarian</a> </td> <td>Vote: </td> <td align="right">xx </td> <td align="right">xx </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">0.3 </td> <td align="right">0.1 </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">xx </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">0.1 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background:#CD5C5C; width: 16px"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Canada_(Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist)" title="Communist Party of Canada (Marxist–Leninist)">Marxist–Leninist</a> </td> <td>Vote: </td> <td align="right">0.1 </td> <td align="right">0.1 </td> <td align="right">0.1 </td> <td align="right">0.1 </td> <td align="right">0.1 </td> <td align="right">0.2 </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">xx </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">0.1 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background:#FF6347; width: 16px"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Canada" title="Communist Party of Canada">Communist</a> </td> <td>Vote: </td> <td align="right">0.2 </td> <td align="right">0.1 </td> <td align="right">xx </td> <td align="right">0.1 </td> <td align="right">0.1 </td> <td align="right">0.1 </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">xx </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">0.1 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background:#DCDCDC; width: 16px">  </td> <td>No affiliation </td> <td>Vote: </td> <td align="right">xx </td> <td align="right">xx </td> <td align="right">xx </td> <td align="right">xx </td> <td align="right">xx </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">  </td> <td align="right">xx </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>xx – less than 0.05% of the popular vote. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Notes">Notes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1979_Canadian_federal_election&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>Number of parties</b>: 9 <ul><li><b>First appearance</b>: <a href="/wiki/Libertarian_Party_of_Canada" title="Libertarian Party of Canada">Libertarian Party of Canada</a>, <a href="/wiki/Union_populaire" title="Union populaire">Union populaire</a></li> <li><b>Reappearance after hiatus</b>: <a href="/wiki/Rhinoceros_Party_of_Canada_(1963%E2%80%931993)" class="mw-redirect" 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">January 11,</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Elections+Canada&rft.atitle=Voter+Turnout+at+Federal+Elections+and+Referendums&rft.aulast=Pomfret&rft.aufirst=R.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.elections.ca%2Fcontent.aspx%3Fsection%3Dele%26dir%3Dturn%26document%3Dindex%26lang%3De&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1979+Canadian+federal+election" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs2"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBfDSimvCFY"><i>1979 Canadian Federal Election Debate</i></a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/JBfDSimvCFY">archived</a> from the original on December 21, 2021<span class="reference-accessdate">, retrieved <span class="nowrap">June 20,</span> 2020</span></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=1979+Canadian+Federal+Election+Debate&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DJBfDSimvCFY&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1979+Canadian+federal+election" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1979_Canadian_federal_election&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPenniman1981" class="citation book cs1">Penniman, Howard, ed. (1981). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/canadaatpolls1970000unse"><i>Canada at the Polls, 1979 and 1980: A Study of the Federal General Elections</i></a></span>. Washington D.C.: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0844734748" title="Special:BookSources/0844734748"><bdi>0844734748</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Canada+at+the+Polls%2C+1979+and+1980%3A+A+Study+of+the+Federal+General+Elections&rft.place=Washington+D.C.&rft.pub=American+Enterprise+Institute+for+Public+Policy+Research&rft.date=1981&rft.isbn=0844734748&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fcanadaatpolls1970000unse&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1979+Canadian+federal+election" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFByers1981" class="citation book cs1">Byers, R.B. (1981). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/canadianannualre0000unse_w1r4"><i>Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs. 1979</i></a></span>. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4426-7193-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4426-7193-5"><bdi>978-1-4426-7193-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Canadian+Annual+Review+of+Politics+and+Public+Affairs.+1979&rft.place=Toronto&rft.pub=University+of+Toronto+Press&rft.date=1981&rft.isbn=978-1-4426-7193-5&rft.aulast=Byers&rft.aufirst=R.B.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fcanadianannualre0000unse_w1r4&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1979+Canadian+federal+election" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSimpson1996" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Simpson" title="Jeffrey Simpson">Simpson, Jeffrey</a> (1996). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/disciplineofpowe0000simp"><i>Discipline of Power: the Conservative Interlude and the Liberal Restoration</i></a></span>. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8020-7620-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8020-7620-5"><bdi>978-0-8020-7620-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Discipline+of+Power%3A+the+Conservative+Interlude+and+the+Liberal+Restoration&rft.place=Toronto&rft.pub=University+of+Toronto+Press&rft.date=1996&rft.isbn=978-0-8020-7620-5&rft.aulast=Simpson&rft.aufirst=Jeffrey&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fdisciplineofpowe0000simp&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1979+Canadian+federal+election" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCocking1979" class="citation book cs1">Cocking, Clive (1979). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/followingleaders0000cock"><i>Following the Leaders: A Media Watcher's Diary of Campaign '79</i></a></span>. Toronto: Doubleday Canada. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-385-14395-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-385-14395-0"><bdi>978-0-385-14395-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Following+the+Leaders%3A+A+Media+Watcher%27s+Diary+of+Campaign+%2779&rft.place=Toronto&rft.pub=Doubleday+Canada&rft.date=1979&rft.isbn=978-0-385-14395-0&rft.aulast=Cocking&rft.aufirst=Clive&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Ffollowingleaders0000cock&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1979+Canadian+federal+election" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPammett1981" class="citation book cs1">Pammett, Jon H. (1981). <i>The Politics of Limited Change: The 1979 Federal Election</i>. Ottawa: Dept. of Political Science, Carleton University. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7709-0103-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7709-0103-5"><bdi>978-0-7709-0103-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Politics+of+Limited+Change%3A+The+1979+Federal+Election&rft.place=Ottawa&rft.pub=Dept.+of+Political+Science%2C+Carleton+University&rft.date=1981&rft.isbn=978-0-7709-0103-5&rft.aulast=Pammett&rft.aufirst=Jon+H.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A1979+Canadian+federal+election" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1979_Canadian_federal_election&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: External 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